Good thing it isn’t Catholic. Remember when the Jesuits, for all their faults, tended to be the most intellectual of orders? Neither can they.
PopeWatch: Jesuit
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
They are paralysing a whole generation of children.
What a bunch of stupid racists! Thank God it’s a dead order. My Jesuit high school tried to teach me that truth is in the gray. No, truth is truth. It’s not a color and it’s not in the middle. And, I noticed they didn’t believe what they were peddling. They only see black and white.
Sounds like more asinine, commie brainwashing.
Are they stupid? Everything woke turns to $hite.
A possible answer: they are “learned in all things, wise in none.” Kipling, “James I.”
An alternative answer, they’re evil.
Here’s a contrary opinion, to justify that we don’t judge individuals by a group character. An interview of a theoretical physicist who became a Jesuit, see here:
https://blog.magiscenter.com/blog/the-ongoing-hunt-for-dark-matter-a-conversation-with-dr.-paolo-beltrame
For all their intellectual and spiritual accomplishments, the Jesuits were apparently unable to defend themselves from the creeping decadence that has left them so pitiful today.
I’ve met an old-school Jesuit, the sort who spoke seven languages and had a passionate, infectious, orthodox faith he was on fire to spread. The sort of priest a Loyola or a Gonzaga would recognize.
His confrères pitied, patronized and ultimately sidelined him.
For all their brilliance, the Jesuits of old didn’t/ couldn’t/ wouldn’t see the rot that degraded their Society and left it the husk we laugh at today.
How does any orthodox Congregation keep itself from following the Jesuit’s sad trajectory?
Ironically speaking;
Pope: A Hypocrite Doesn’t Know How To Love
August 25, 2021 by sd
From Catholic News Agency:
Speaking at the general audience in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall on Aug. 25, the pope underlined that hypocritical behavior damaged Church unity.
“Hypocrisy in the Church is particularly detestable, and unfortunately there is hypocrisy in the Church, and there are many hypocritical Christians and ministers. We should never forget the Lord’s words: ‘Let what you say be simply Yes or No; anything more than this comes from evil,’” he said, quoting Matthew 5:37.
Communion for the divorced living in sin? Hummmm
The Jesuits are dying out. The black shame of it is that they seem determined to inflict as much collateral damage as possible as they go.
Fascinating, coming from a guy who constantly hedges against absolutes (most recently doing so WRT to the 10 Commandments.
And I see he’s dropped that whole “let me talk about the Devil a lot” misdirection strategy, changing the actual quote to “from evil” instead of “from the evil one.”
I guess in the latter days of his papacy he’s decided to align more with the quasi-believing Spaniard who runs the SJs, surprising me not at all.
Fr. John Hardon SJ. Rest in Peace.
I believe that Fr. Hardon was witnessing the smoke of Satan seep into the Vatican and through the open doors of the Jesuit order.
The cleansing will come.
Have no doubt about it.
A Franciscan and a Jesuit are walking down the street when they are approached by a man who asks them “Fathers, is it inappropriate for me to pray a novena for a new Mercedes?”
The Franciscan replies “What’s a Mercedes?”
And the Jesuit asks “What’s a novena?”.
If one had three children, all boys and middle class (no aid).
The cost of sending them to this school would be ($16.9K * 3 *4)
$202.8K
“salvation” has become crazy expensive..
– and with no “carpenters” allowed.
The Jesuits are dying out.
My recollection is that ca. 2003 they were down to just north of 25 ordinations per year in the United States. Fr. Mankowski estimated that 55-60% of the men he entered formation with in 1974 had no faith but were ‘homosexuals hiding in the tall grass’. A British newspaper noted ruefully in 2002 that the California province had on its official website goofy pictures of novices with homosexual double-entendre captions; that’s how they wanted to present themselves.
If one had three children, all boys and middle class (no aid).
The cost of sending them to this school would be ($16.9K * 3 *4)
$202.8K
That’s a problem with Catholic schools generally. They depended crucially for their workforce on priests and religious who lived communally, had little property, and received small stipends from their order. When the number entering the religious orders each year declines by 90% – 97%, that workforce is gone. You have to get lay teachers with a much higher reserve wage and far less thorough education in the faith. The net result is schools for residually Catholic professional-managerial types who have little time for the historic faith or for clergy who promote it. See Charlotte Catholic High School.
Worse… it’s as if those children who aren’t recent immigrants or lucky$ enough to attend … really don’t matter much at all.
I think so-called Catholic parents willingly pay the high freight for elite, so-called Catholic high schools mostly because said phony Catholic HS’s have excellent college placement records and, arguably, much better educational values than the beyond-the-pale, public addict/felon/idiot mills.
“It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.”
My three sons went through the excellent Chaminade HS in Mineola, Nassau County, NY. It is run by Marianists. It has excellent educational values [least expensive of the five or six local Cath. HSs] and, contrary to the Jesuit-run schools, it is both orthodox Catholic, and culturally and politically rational, if not completely conservative. If it wasn’t, We would not be involved.
A decade after our sons graduated, The Warden and I continue active in Chaminade Alumni Parents Association [I would have flunked out of CHS in two weeks when I was a kid]; are well-acquainted with; and are confident in the priests and brothers that run the school.
God Loves All His children.
Like every where else, the Jesuits here in Cincinnati are terrible,, with most of them barely Christian, but the Marianists here were much worse. Barely any left at all now.
Attending College in Tucson way back then, I became aware that Brophy (Phoenix) was the premier Catholic high school in the state, followed by Salpointe (Tucson). Both were barely Catholic then. Nothing’s changed except their worldliness.
The solution for the Catholic schools is depicted here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj0YQ4SsjEs